We were on the road early today for a 300 mile drive to Navajo Lake State Park in northwest New Mexico. The drive turned out to be an extra 50 miles. I took a wrong turn just 8 miles before we would have gotten to the Pine Area campground. I saw a Navajo Lake Campground sign and I turned left. Had to drive all the way to Aztec, NM (14 miles) before I could find a place to turn around. There are two challenges in pulling a car: 1) you CAN NOT back up, not even a foot, 2) getting gas, finding a station I can get into and out of without backing up, and I have to decide as we drive by, it can be a REAL pain.
We are in site 58, our third site of the afternoon. The sites are all laid out backwards. Power and water should be on one side with the door and table on the other, most sites have the power, water and table on the same side, or the power/water are on the side where motorhomes and trailer have there door. The first site I could not get level without our slide being within 10 inches of the next sites BBQ (really 10 inches). The second site was a pull through marked a reserve site on the exit side of the pull through and an open non-reserved site on the entry. When I pulled into the site and started setting up the RV the camp host (really nice guy) came by and asked me why I was setting up in a reserved site. I said because the post over here says the site is open. Dan (the host) said it’s a reserved site and he had actually never seen the non-reserved site post I saw. He went a got a garbage bag and put it over my post really fast. He than took me around the park in his John Deere tractor and helped us find a site.
Here is the drive for today.
Here is a close up of the area we are in:
Notice the dam at the lower part of the lake. Can you see where the blue line goes across the face of the dam. Yes, the road starts at the bottom of the dam face and we drove up across the face of the dam to get to the top of the dam.